ANTH 316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Western Pattern Diet
Document Summary
An ancestral diet as a possible solution to chronic health problems in nature hawaiian. Environmental and cultural factors affect your genetics and thus why diet would be best for the individual. With western diet western diseases became more prevalent along with diabetes. Happens due to thrifty genes and reversal from macros of native diets. Plant based doesn"t always mean sustainable alla out tropic levels and energy consumption. All about efficiency the input to roiduce both plant and meat food should be equal to the output to be more sustainable. Beef basically sucks for all this but so do avocados. Basically obesity, as defined by fat not muscle mass is terrible for you. Obesity has increased in the us over the past couple of decades. Genetics diet and lifestlye all contribute to obesity not just diet alone.
